Do you have a topic that is an immediate deal breaker if a manga series you were already reading suddenly featured that topic, such that you would stop reading the series (even if it was "tastefully" done)? For example: religion, rape, etc.

Touma Sou graduated from MIT, but he comes back to Japan because he wants to know how it feels to be a high school student. On the other hand, Mizuhara Kana is a strong girl who loves sports. Together, they are partners in solving cases that happen around them.

well, dunno if he is kinda of detective or nothe never said he is as it, but one thing is trueHE IS GENIUS, even people around him acknowledge it

as the story tell on very first volume, he is just want to enjoy his high school life which (dunno if right or no) he lost when he jump into MIT when he young, he just want to experience it But even now he is High school, he is already (correct me if i'm wrong) graduate from MIThe is acknowledge by another researcher theremostly in math field (so don't be surprised if you got a case which involve math formula, which is fun to read but you never understand)Well, Kana, I know your feeling

as wuhugm said he is not famous as detective, but at least as researcher he is acknowledge by people around himwell, mostly the case is murder, but it just coincidence when he or Kana are around,

but to make you interested to read it, this manga have comedy on his ownwhile it's like Conan in term of comedy, the stoic and dense Touma is main point heregive it a try, the charms of this series lay on the math, the comedy duo, and the short-solved caseQ.E.D

because I think every of detective manga out there has their own charm.

Well, as for myself... I've read Conan, Kindaichi, C.M.B, DDS or you may say almost all big title of detective that published in my place^^. But maybe Q.E.D is the most brilliant detective manga for me. I really like how the case is not draggy and over with one book, how the explanation make sense and makes me confuse * u *) , I really like how deep (sometimes) the case is presented.

Of course, unlike C.M.B, Q.E.D is more serious but I can't help it. I'm more deeply in love with Toma and Kana. And I really like whenever Q.E.D x C.M.B ^^ Reading how their own point of view sure makes me feel asdfghjdfghj wow! But again, Toma is my favourite whenever it happen ^ o ^ //brickd

This manga, like some have said before, is not all about murder on every case. don't get mistaken though, I feel that some of these cases are the best xD ( I absolutely love the school's mystery club, these guys are hilarious).

it maybe lacking in term of character development or relationship development in particular, but I think that the lead pair are cute that way. I always think that they actually care for each other whether they are aware of that or not.

Another thing about this series is that the author likes developing the cases based on a science theories (mostly mathematics, but I have seen also economics and historical facts) and provide us with a brief explanation to the theory (this happen on 1 of 2 cases on every comic books). There were times when I got really confused by it lol, but fear not, even if you skip it you can still enjoy reading this.

Hmm... some reviewers are really amazing. They seems can crack some mysteries in this series and truly do research on QED materials, miss/mr. enaikelt for example, while I'm not. I'm just go read and stumbled on the awesomeness of QED (well, I'm just a pure-hearted boy maybe...)

I personally like the various cases which are provided by QED - not only murder and murder. Why? While murder case only provide an insight about modus operandi which is often useless and unpractical in society, a non-murder-case can provide an insight which is practical and seems-cool-to-be-understood, and QED provide many of it.

But well, I still read only 12 volumes, I hope it will get interesting and more variety cases comes out...

To be honest, I feel that a kind of injustice is being done to this manga with the comments. I suppose it depends on what you're looking for in manga, but in a detective/mystery manga I expect and am looking for mysteries that are solved. QED delivers this and there's no big fuss about anything.

as far as detective story go, it's okay. the evidence is just too shaky any good lawyer can overturn it, if only the culprit don't start confessing after the ball is dropped. and ya know, there are alot of child murderers lol...quite unrealistic. and i just can't accept important organization like the cia or a government seemed so careless...

the character faces all seem to blend together, interchangeable. it can't be help that there are different character for every case, but at least different hairstyle, but even that cannot be managed. somehow i am always irritated with mizuhara. she is just too airheaded, too stubborn, too genki for me. and too many abuse. if i was touma i would sue the ass out of her.

but good point for including variety of cases, not just murders. even if i say a lot of bad points, it is still worth reading, because sometimes the case, the notes, the additional info is quite interesting.

reading qed is like watching the beautiful mind, served in front of you the beauty of mathematics. seems unsolvable, and almost certain won't contribute anything good even if you're able to solved them. but it is undeniable they are captivating, fascinating, stupefying.

that's about half of the manga.

the other half is about simplicity. there is no exaggerated hatred in murder case. only reasonable but stirred with depth of emotion. reading qed never incite disgusted feeling by how the characters act. because we can somehow put ourselves in their shoe, albeit those simplistic art.

qed is mystery manga that is not so mysterious. its turns beautiful over time.

If you think this goes nowhere then Conan, Kindaichi and virtually every other detective manga are guilty too (during much of its life, usually only change nearing completion).

With this at least the characters are being developed and really good at that albeit slowly (you could tell how Touma definitely but slowly began to change over the course of the series, thing I never feel on Conan or Kindaichi), this has the effect of seemingly boring but I never feel that way whenever I read this manga and the characters keep growing on me.

Also this one does not exclusively revolve around murder and dead body, in fact as the series progress there are more and more interesting and/or quirky case with equally interesting resolution and trivia involving broad range of subjects other mystery series could only touch the surface.

As a whole one could regard this as a slice of life with a lot of interesting mystery and twist on it, both done very well. IMO, this is one the best in its genre.

but this manga doesn't have main plot, or even recurring antagonist, it can goes on forever but that's the bad thing

The weirdest thing is even after solving 60+ cases (in vol 35 now), some even in global scale, HE NEVER GOT FAMOUS!!

He never become a famous detective or anything, so his character traits never change from the 1st volume! He is always an MIT graduate and a high school student

Even after helping the police dozens time, he is never asked to help solving a crime, all his cases are either coincidently stumbling on a case or his friends from university ask for help.There was also no explanation of what happened after a case, criminal got caught by deduction and that's it, was the news published on newspaper or any media is never known.

so we can summary all story in qed like this :Coincidently stumble in a case > solved the case > bad guy got caught > donemost story goes like that and there is almost no relation between cases at all.

first time around it was interesting, then it's just bizarre and stoopid, This is far cry from Conan and Kindaichi, figures...